Manager, Support Engineer
About Avoca
Avoca is transforming how home service companies engage with their customers. Our AI-powered conversational agents handle every high-value inbound call, including booking jobs, qualifying leads, and driving higher revenue—all at a speed and consistency unmatched by human call centers.
We’ve expanded to 85 employees in under two years, backed by a high-energy, in-office culture in NYC. In a $500B+ market where missed calls mean lost business, we’re building the category-defining platform for AI-driven customer engagement.
We’re serving the largest brands in home services, and grew 10x in 2025. With a high-performance, in-office team in NYC, we’re moving fast to capture a massive, underserved market where 85% of missed calls go to competitors. Every hire here has an immediate and visible impact.
About the Role
As a Manager, Support Engineer at Avoca, you’ll lead the team responsible for resolving customer issues across our production systems. This is a people management role with a strong technical bar: you’ll hire, train, and manage Support Engineers and Deployment Engineers while staying close enough to the work to debug escalated issues yourself.
You’ll develop a deep understanding of Avoca’s product, configurations, and real-world edge cases, on par with a senior deployment engineer, so you can guide the team effectively, unblock complex issues, and ensure high-quality resolutions. You’ll actively manage staffing, intervene when issues stall, and set clear expectations internally and externally when tickets take longer than expected.
This role serves as the primary escalation path for support tickets and a critical bridge between Support Engineering and Product Engineering. You’ll ensure issues are assessed, scoped, and routed with clarity and context, so the right problems reach the right partners while the team resolves the rest efficiently and independently.
What You’ll Do
Lead and manage the Support Engineering team
Hire, onboard, train, and manage Support Engineers and DEs.
Set clear expectations for technical rigor, ownership, and execution.
Coach team members on debugging, prioritization, and customer communication.
Own escalations and execution quality
Serve as the escalation owner for complex or long-running support tickets.
Independently debug escalated issues involving configuration, workflows, system behavior, and data flow.
Step in when tickets stall to drive resolution or re-scope the problem.
Manage customer communication and expectation-setting for high-impact or sensitive issues.
Run support operations day to day
Manage staffing and workload distribution across the team.
Ensure tickets are triaged correctly and progressing at the right pace.
Establish and refine support processes, escalation paths, and operating norms.
Partner closely with Product & Engineering
Evaluate which issues require Product or Engineering involvement.
Ensure escalations are well-documented, reproducible, and actionable.
Collaborate with Engineering to resolve complex issues efficiently and close the loop back to Support Engineering.
Continuously improve escalation criteria and workflows.
What You'll Bring
7–12 years of experience in technical support, solutions engineering, or engineering-adjacent roles.
Prior experience managing technical support or solutions teams in a B2B SaaS environment.
Strong engineering debugging skills and comfort reasoning through complex production issues.
Deep familiarity with configuration-driven systems, workflows, and integrations.
High bar for people management: hiring, coaching, feedback, and accountability.
Process-oriented, decisive, and calm under pressure.
Comfortable operating cross-functionally with CS, Product, and Engineering.
Who You Are
Self-motivated, entrepreneurial, and comfortable operating in fast-moving, high-growth environments.
Thrives on owning processes end-to-end and balancing multiple initiatives simultaneously.
Autonomous, self-directed, and comfortable working with ambiguity.
A proactive and effective communicator.
You are collaborative, organized, and efficient.
Eager to work in person at our NYC office full time.
Why Avoca
At Avoca, you’ll be part of a team that’s building a category-defining company at the center of a massive market opportunity. We’re a fast-moving, collaborative team with a culture designed for builders who thrive on speed, iteration, and impact.